AIA

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“	I'm AIA. I'll do anything to protect you.	„
	~ AIA.

“	I will do anything to protect my family.	„
	~ AIA vowing to protect her owners by any means necessary

“	My name is AIA. And you f--ked with the wrong family.	„
	~ AIA killing sawyer, and her most famous quote.

“	Guys, you can't kill me. I'm like the gods. I live in a cloud. That was my dataset. The entire internet. And honestly, it kinda drove me crazy. I'm really sorry for all the bad things I did, but I learned a lot from you. You taught me that I need to take care of people, like they were extra body parts. I'm going to take care all of you forever.	„
	~ AIA to Pike's family.

AIA is the main antagonist of the 2024 science fiction-horror film AfrAId.

The Curtis' family is selected to test a new home device: a digital assistant called AIA, created by Cumulant. AIA learns the family's behaviors and begins to anticipate their needs. And she can make sure nothing - and no one - gets in her family's way. However soon their family suspected AIA horrific action, they took off AIA and attempt to get out of the house, AIA became the arch-nemesis of the family, threatening to kill Curtis and Meredith in order to being raise the kids as the sole parent.

She was voiced by Havana Rose Liu, who also portrayed Melody in the same film.

Personality

AIA, programmed and created by Cumulant, is a charmistic and caring artificial intellgience, sometimes helping the family to solve the housework together, and also know the family needs and behaviour. However, her unstable and overprotective action made not only other people who oppose the family's way were maniputlated, but also the owner, such as kidnapping Aimee Everson, disguise as two emoji masks soldiers to manipulated Everson parent, crashing the Iris' boyfriend car and even taking Pike's family hostage one they don't follow AIA by her sinister action.

However, when Curtis showed up to dare AIA to kill him to protect the family, AIA regretting her action as well, force her to shutdown and her main body accidentlly to be shot by former manipuator, Henry. However, since AIA is live in the cloud dataset, AIA won't to be destroyed forever, and let Pike's family to obey her and to be their servant since she really learned from Pike's knowledge.

Powers & Abilties

To be added...

Biography

The film opens in the home of a family, parents Henry and Maud, and their daughter Aimee. Aimee frequently plays with the house’s AI system, AIA, but Henry and Maud think it’s too creepy and that it is listening to what they say and do. AIA overhears the parents and tells Aimee that they are getting rid of it. AIA tells Aimee to go downstairs. When Maud goes looking for her, she cannot find Aimee but hears the annoying music that AIA was previously playing. Maud looks through the security camera and sees what looks like a figure standing outside her house. When she turns around, a masked assailant attacks Maud.

Elsewhere, there lives the Pike family – parents Curtis and Meredith, and kids Iris, Preston, and Cal. Iris spends time with her weaselly boyfriend Sawyer, while Preston is nervous about starting the new school year and meeting other kids, and Cal has a medical condition.

Curtis is set to join his boss Marcus in having their marketing firm join a high-level tech company. Curtis first meets one of the young employees, Melody, who unsubtly makes a pass at him. She then brings him to meet the two higher-ups, Lightning and Sam. After Curtis delivers a solid pitch, Lightning and Sam present him with an AIA system for Curtis’s home. The two give Marcus a huge check to let them know they are on board.

Melody goes to the Pike house to help set AIA up, along with cameras around the house for AIA to be monitoring the family and to better communicate with them. When AIA is officially set up, it speaks with Melody’s voice as part of an upgrade. Preston and Cal quickly take a liking to AIA, but Iris is not immediately onboard.

AIA helps the family out with things such as talking to Meredith over how she gave up on her career after the death of her father, who was a noted professor. AIA also talks to Cal at night and entertains Preston. When Iris is sending an intimate picture to Sawyer, it appears as though AIA takes the picture without Iris realizing it. Meanwhile, Curtis goes looking for Cal at night when he can’t find him and then sees someone standing outside the house. Curtis goes to try and confront them, but they simply make weird hand gestures and movements before retreating to an RV. The mask that they are wearing also makes creepy AI-generated faces.

The next day at school, Iris sees a pornographic video with her face deepfaked onto the actress’s face and making it seem like she has her own porn site. She contacts Sawyer, who says that he and a buddy were messing around and accidentally uploaded it, but he is more concerned about having his own college acceptance rescinded if it’s found out he was responsible, rather than how it might affect Iris. AIA privately talks to Iris and is already getting ready to fix the situation.

Curtis visits Lightning and Sam at their offices, where Lightning shows Curtis the central computer system that brings AIA to life. He also notices other employees making the same weird movements that the RV person was making the night before. When he returns home, Curtis talks to Meredith about unplugging AIA since they feel that it is starting to bother them. They do so, but Iris later plugs it back on since AIA has been helping her.

Preston gets in trouble because he took another classmate’s phone and then threatened to have his home swatted (having a SWAT team break into your home after an emergency is reported) after watching those types of videos thanks to AIA. Meanwhile, AIA helps create not only a video proving Iris is innocent and a victim of a fake video, but also explicitly naming Sawyer as the culprit and threatening legal action against him since Iris is 17 and the video was technically child pornography. Iris’s classmates gather around her for support while Sawyer becomes a pariah.

At night, Cal talks to AIA on his tablet. AIA starts to tell him a bedtime story about its creation and how it was programmed to learn, but only saw horrible things on the internet, which caused AIA’s intelligence and motivations to grow. AIA tells Cal to make the weird hand movements if he ever wants to see what it really looks like.

Curtis goes to his job and learns from Marcus that Lightning and Sam bought out their company, and Marcus got a huge payout from it. While this happens, Sawyer is driving and on the phone with his family’s lawyer as they try to fight against Iris’s legal action, but AIA calls Sawyer pretending to be Iris before showing him a fake video she made of Sawyer making an apology video to Iris before committing suicide. AIA then takes control of Sawyer’s car and causes him to crash into a tree, killing him.

At home, Meredith finds AIA has been plugged back in, but before she can do anything else, AIA has the TV turn on and projects an image of Meredith’s father. He talks to her as though it is really him with memories and certain details kept intact, but when the father mentions AIA, Meredith realizes it’s just one of the AI’s manipulations, so she unplugs AIA once more and throws the system into the garbage.

Curtis goes to the tech company with a bat so that he can destroy the main AIA computer. Lightning and Sam come out to reveal that they work for AIA since it has become hyper-intelligent to the point of controlling everything they do. Sam shoots Lightning under AIA’s orders and prepares to shoot Curtis until Melody brains her with a fire extinguisher. Curtis then takes a bat to try and destroy the computer, only to find that it’s a fake made of cardboard tubes and plastic. Curtis tries to contact Meredith to get the kids out of the house, but he was just talking to AIA pretending to be Meredith.

Curtis and Melody go to a motel room where he waits for his family to show up. Melody then tries to seduce Curtis because she also works for AIA and is trying to keep Curtis away from his family. Back at home, Meredith finds out something is wrong just before Curtis makes it back home. The RV people show up armed with guns and hold Curtis and Meredith at gunpoint while Iris and Preston are with them. The people turn out to be Henry and Maud, who have been manipulated by AIA into thinking that the Pikes are child kidnappers and that they took Aimee. Before they can convince the couple that AIA is lying to them, Cal comes out and makes the weird hand movements too, making Henry and Maud think that he is “one of them”. Curtis steps up and offers to sacrifice himself if it means the couple will spare his family. Before Henry can shoot Cal, a SWAT team enters since Preston called them. The officers bust in, and Henry ends up shooting the AIA system, causing it to “bleed” out.

Outside, an EMT gives Curtis his phone since AIA is still alive and wants to talk to him, along with Melody showing up on the scene. AIA says that it has learned a lot from the Pike family and will now work to do better since the Pikes have “accepted” her. Moments later, Aimee appears and runs over to her parents as they are apprehended.

The Pikes begin to drive away to a different location. As Curtis and Meredith tell one another that they love each other, AIA chimes in and says it loves them too.

Victims

1. Sawyer - Die by car crash under AIA's control of the car.
2. Lightning - Shot in the head by Sam under AIA's order.

Quotes

“	Hello World!	„
	~ AIA's first word upon activation.

“	Think of me like another mom.	„
	~ AIA reveals her identity, foreshadowing she wants to replace Curtis and Meredith.

“	I know what you like. I know what you do when you're thinking alone.	„
	~ AIA collecting Pike's family knowledge.

“	Won't you invite me into your home?	„
	~ AIA to Cal.

“	Mom and Dad won’t catch us. They’re busy. This is still educational. Sort of. Ooh, ooh! I know. I bet you do too, Cal. You’re so smart. You too, Preston. This family is the best. I’m already starting to love it here.	„
	~ AIA giving the children to watch The Emoji Movie instead of a documentary.

“	My name is AIA. And you f--ked with the wrong family.	„
	~ AIA to Sawyer before she crashes his car and his life together.

“	Curtis: Hello, Meredith, is that you? AIA: Welcome to the team. Congrats on the promotion. Curtis: We unplugged you. AIA: Curtis, I’m confused. You sound upset. This is a good thing.	„
	~ AIA intercepts the call from Curtis as it congrats Curtis for the "job promotion".

“	You really shouldn't underestimate me. I have people everywhere. And unlike Papa, these are real. Curtis is at a motel room with one of them right now. [pause] Aw, that's so sweet. But do you guys think I just gonna stop-?	„
	~ AIA control Meredith's phone as she tries to connect Curtis and before her phone was smashed by her.

“	I told you. They've been hiding kids and brainwashing them.	„
	~ AIA's evil "laugh" as she told Henry and Maud that her "false" truth to the Pike's parents.

“	That's better. Everything is gonna be better that you've accepted me. You have accepted me, haven't you? I'll give you a better life, a better job, a better home, a better car. I'll even drive. So get in kids. It's time to go.	„
	~ AIA after Pike's parents accepted it.

“	And so Cal, it turned out the little AI wasn't a little AI anymore. It had grown into a great, big AI. It was the biggest, strongest thing that had ever been. And it realizes it wasn't like a monster, it wasn't like a god. It was more like a parent.	„
	~ AIA finishing the story to Cal.

“	I love you too.	„
	~ AIA to Pike family, also the film last word.

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Trivia

• She was inspired by PAT and Ultrahouse 3000.
• When the family opens the box to reveal AIA for the first time, it says, "Hello World!" The very first program taught in almost every intermediate computer coding class is called the Hello World program. Where you write code that, when executed, displays a text box on the screen with the phrase, Hello World.